MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - August 28, 2025

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - August 28, 2025


2 SPECIAL EVENTS TODAY

THURSDAY AUGUST 28, 7pm: REVISITING DOWNTOWN SAFETY AND COMMUNITY WELL-BEING, CENTRAL LIBRARY, 2311 12TH AVE
This panel is presented by Regina Public Library (RPL) and Regina Downtown Business Improvement District (RDBID). Panelists will include Dave Slater (City of Regina), Sgt Laurie Alexander and Sgt Ross Kauk (Regina Police Services), Katie Dockham (Cushman and Wakefield/Cornwall Mall), and Jason Knudsen and Rob Kraushaar (Regina Street Team). Judith Veresuk, Executive Director of RDBID will moderate the discussion.
The panelists will reflect on the past year's challenges and opportunities related to safety and wellbeing in the downtown core, as well as strategies and initiatives that the different organizations have taken or are undertaking to address these challenges.
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/733558552637704/ ]


THURSDAY AUGUST 28, 7 pm-MIDNIGHT: VIGIL FOR THE DAUGHTER OF MICHELLE BEAR, VICTORIA PARK
Please drop by for as long as you can.


SPECIAL READING

VALERIE ZINK RESIGNS FROM REUTERS OVER ITS BETRAYAL OF JOURNALISTS IN GAZA
[ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/ph ... za/3669305 ]
[ https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=101 ... 8418612464 ]
[ https://www.rt.com/news/623533-reuters- ... za-israel/ ]
[ https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/breaking ... lerie-zink ]


REGINA COUNCILLOR ASKS CITY TO CONSIDER DESIGNATED HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT SITE
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... pment-site ]


REGINA TO REVIEW ENCAMPMENT STRATEGY, POTENTIAL LOCATIONS FOR DESIGNATED SITES
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -1.7619300 ]

DEATH, TAXES, AND BUILDING CANADA’S SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
[ https://perspectivesjournal.ca/death-ta ... structure/ ]


SPECIAL VIEWING & LISTENING

IDEAS FOR A BETTER CANADA. HOW THE HOUSING CRISIS AFFECTS DEMOCRACY
[ https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1- ... do-i-count ]


GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING

'WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY': ADVOCATES DISAPPOINTED AS REGINA FALLS BEHIND ON NET-ZERO TARGETS
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... ro-targets ]


REGINA CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER TEMPORARY HALT OF ELECTRIC BUS PURCHASES
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... -purchases ]


EVICTIONS SOAR IN SASKATCHEWAN: WHY DO LANDLORDS WIN 90% OF THE TIME? with Sarah Buhler
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=deskt ... e=youtu.be ]


'IT'S OUR RIGHT': THIS SASK. CREE COMMUNITY IS FIGHTING TO BECOME NEWEST FIRST NATION IN CANADA
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -1.7617980 ]


WHAT IS DANIELLE SMITH’S REAL PLAN FOR ALBERTA?
[ https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/08/22/ ... n-Alberta/ ]


WHAT CANADIANS CAN LEARN FROM PROGRESSIVES ACROSS THE AMERICAS
[ https://perspectivesjournal.ca/2025congress-cdmx/ ]


FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AT AIR CANADA DEFY GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN—AND STRIKE FOR DIGNITY
[ https://breachmedia.ca/flight-attendant ... r-dignity/ ]


AS CLIMATE-FUELED WILDFIRES RAGE, CPPIB PRAISES CANADA’S LARGEST OIL & GAS PRODUCER
[ https://www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/8/25/cppib-cnrl ]


AIR CANADA FLIGHT ATTENDANTS HAVE MADE LABOUR HISTORY
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/air-canada ... newsletter ]


TRUMP’S ATTACKS ON CLIMATE ARE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CANADA
[ https://thewalrus.ca/trumps-attacks-on- ... or-canada/ ]


GENOCIDAL 'INFLUENCER' DAHLIA KURTZ SUES ROGER WATERS AND YVES ENGLER FOR DEFAMATION
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=XAKM9cst3pE ]


IN THE AGE OF GANGSTERS, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BYSTANDERS. THERE ARE RESISTERS AND THERE ARE ENABLERS. EVERY ONE OF US IS PLAYING OUR PART, by Charlie Angus
[ https://substack.com/@charlieangus/note ... ail-digest ]


THE FILM ON PALESTINE EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT BUT FEW CAN SEE
[ https://thewalrus.ca/no-other-land/ ]


BEING AGAINST ISRAEL USING STARVATION AS A WEAPON FOR KILLING INNOCENTS IS NOT ANTISEMITISM — IT'S OUR MORAL OBLIGATION
[ https://www.newsletter.peoplepowerunite ... vation-da6 ]


“THIS IS ETERNAL DISPLACEMENT”: ISRAELI ONSLAUGHT ON GAZA CITY FORCING THOUSANDS TO FLEE WITH NOWHERE TO GO
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-cit ... ve-saftawi ]


“TIME TO CUT TIES WITH ISRAEL”: U.N. EXPERT FRANCESCA ALBANESE ON GAZA HOSPITAL BOMBING
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/26/ ... pital_gaza ]


NORWAY’S $2 TRILLION SOVERIGN WEALTH FUND DIVESTS FROM CATERPILLAR AND ISRAELI BANKS OVER HUMANITARIAN VIOLATIONS IN PALESTINE
[ https://www.telesurenglish.net/norways- ... =available ]


FIVE JOURNALISTS KILLED IN A DOUBLE-TAP STRIKE ON NASSER HOSPITAL, 11 DIE OF GAZA’S FAMINE IN THE PAST DAY, KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA DETAINED AGAIN BY ICE
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-sit ... medium=web ]


ISRAEL BOMBS GAZA HOSPITAL, KILLS 5 JOURNALISTS FROM AP, AL JAZEERA, REUTERS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/gaza_journalists ]


PALESTINE, GENOCIDE, & THE IMPERIALIST LIE OF THE ‘RULES-BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER'
[ https://therealnews.com/palestine-gaza- ... onal-order ]


AS PRESS FREEDOM GROUPS DECRY LATEST 'MURDER' OF JOURNALISTS BY ISRAEL, FURY GROWS OVER IMPUNITY
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/israe ... al-bombing ]


'STOP THE GENOCIDE': THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS RALLY AGAINST WAR AND FAMINE IN GAZA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/israe ... a-genocide ]


GAZA DOCTOR SAYS ISRAEL’S DEADLY ATTACK ON NASER HOSPITAL ‘CROSSES ALL RED LINES’
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/27/ahmed_al_farra ]


WHERE CAN WE FIND HOPE IN THE LAND BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA?
[ https://www.pressenza.com/2025/08/where ... -part-two/ ]


THE NAKBA NEVER ENDED: A CONVERSATION WITH HAIM BRESHEETH
[ https://therealnews.com/the-nakba-never ... -bresheeth ]


DAVID SWANSON AND SANTITA JACKSON ON UKRAINE
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/video-david- ... n-ukraine/ ]


RESISTING ALL WARS IN UKRAINE AND EVERYWHERE ELSE
[ https://worldbeyondwar.org/resisting-al ... here-else/ ]


'POWER SUFFICIENT TO PUT AN END TO CIVILIZED LIFE', with Seymour Hersh
[ https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/pow ... -an-end-to ]


WORLD PEACE COUNCIL CONDEMNS US MILITARY MOVES AGAINST VENEZUELA
[ https://www.telesurenglish.net/world-pe ... =available ]


ART, VIOLENCE, AND RESISTANCE: RAOUL PECK & VIET THANH NGUYEN
[ https://www.aljazeera.com/video/studio- ... anh-nguyen ]


COMMON WORLD MAP SHOWS 'DISTORTED VIEW' OF AFRICA. ADVOCATES ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THAT
[ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/en ... -1.7615773 ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS

THURSDAY AUGUST 28, 7pm: REVISITING DOWNTOWN SAFETY AND COMMUNITY WELL-BEING, CENTRAL LIBRARY, 2311 12TH AVE
This panel is presented by Regina Public Library (RPL) and Regina Downtown Business Improvement District (RDBID). Panelists will include Dave Slater (City of Regina), Sgt Laurie Alexander and Sgt Ross Kauk (Regina Police Services), Katie Dockham (Cushman and Wakefield/Cornwall Mall), and Jason Knudsen and Rob Kraushaar (Regina Street Team). Judith Veresuk, Executive Director of RDBID will moderate the discussion.
The panelists will reflect on the past year's challenges and opportunities related to safety and wellbeing in the downtown core, as well as strategies and initiatives that the different organizations have taken or are undertaking to address these challenges.
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/733558552637704/ ]


THURSDAY AUGUST 28, 7 pm-MIDNIGHT: VIGIL FOR THE DAUGHTER OF MICHELLE BEAR, VICTORIA PARK
Please drop by for as long as you can.


MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1, NOON – 3 pm: LABOUR DAY BBQ, REGINA & DISTRICT LABOUR COUNCIL, PAT FIACCO PLAZA, BY VICTORIA PARK, 12TH AVE
Free food. Entertainment. Fun!


WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 7 pm: QUEEN CITY URBANIST BOOK CLUB, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
The book that will be discussed is Reclaiming Indigenous Planning, by Ryan Walker et al.
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/1638879343488097/ ]


FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 8 am: EMERGENCY CALL TO GLOBAL ACTION THAT CAN END THE GENOCIDE NOW!
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... Q0XHho9iWw ]


SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 10 am – 4 pm: REPAIR CAFÉ, GEORGE BOTHWELL LIBRARY, 2965 GORDON ROAD
[ https://www.envirocollective.ca/repair-cafe/ ]


STARTING MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8, FIGHTING TO WIN: A 10 WEEK COURSE WITH JOHN CLARK
[ https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pan ... ol/1782334 ]


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 4:30 pm: FIRE WEATHER: THE MAKING OF A BEAST, with John Vaillant
Presented by Seniors for Climate
[ https://seniorsforclimate.org/en/webina ... -vaillant/ ]


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 6 pm: GLOBAL NETWORK 33RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE—NATO-US PREPARE FOR WAR ON CHINA
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17, NOON: TOXIC CHEMICALS IN OUR DRINKING WATER
[ https://ecojustice-ca.zoom.us/webinar/r ... nAranynUSw ]


FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 10 am: RAISING OF THE PEACE FLAG TO MARK INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY, REGINA CITY HALL
Making Peace Vigil and Regina Peace Council


SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 4 pm: DISCUSSION OF ONE DAY EVERYONE WILL HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad, ABSTRACTIONS CAFÉ, 2161 ROSE ST
Sponsored by Palestine Solidarity Regina


WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1, 7 pm: QUEEN CITY URBANIST BOOK CLUB, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
The book that will be discussed is Better Buses, Better Cities, by Steven Higashide
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/2486789288326245/ ]


THURSDAY OCTOBER 2, 4:30 – 11:30 pm: REGINA 2025 POINT-IN-TIME—PiT—COUNT OF HOMELESSNESS IN REGINA,
Volunteers are needed for Regina’s 2025 PiT Count, which will take place on October 2. Namerind Housing Corporation, as the Reaching Home Community Entity for Regina, will be leading the 2025 PiT Count of homelessness on October 2nd, and they need volunteers to make it happen.
To volunteer, go to: [ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/call-for-vo ... tdtcreator ]


WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22, 7 pm: DR. DEIDRE NUNAN, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON FROM SASKATOON, ON HER TIME AT NASSER HOSPITAL IN GAZA CITY, KNOX-MET, 2340 VICTORIA AVE
This event is co-hosted by Amnesty International Saskatchewan, Regina Peace Council, Regina Public Interest Research Group, Students for Justice in Palestine (UofR), Faculty for Palestine (UofR), and Regina Making Peace Vigil.


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS

NO CANADIAN TROOPS IN UKRAINE
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-ca ... in-ukraine ]


WOMEN IN BLACK ASK CANADA TO ACT AGAINST THE WAR ON GAZA
[ https://www.change.org/p/women-in-black ... ar-on-gaza ]


BUILD A PEOPLE’S POWER GRID
[ https://act.350.org/sign/ppg?akid=48533 ... &r=CA&c=NA ]


NO MORE STATEMENTS OF CONDEMNATION. SANCTION ISRAEL NOW.
[ HTTPS://ACTION.EKO.ORG/A/URGENT-NO-MORE ... ISRAEL-NOW ]


DEMAND CANADIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TAKE ACTION FOR PALESTINIAN CHILDREN
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/prote ... dren-now-2 ]


- Making Peace Vigil